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It’s nice to hear you! I hope this doesn’t sound shallow, but you have a great voice – I think it’s helpful to have voice that is good to listen to in such situations. (An example of when this doesn’t work is Johann Hari, who tends to gabble. My interest in this is that I was involved in teaching a ‘communication skills’ course for undergraduates for many years).

Did you see Johann on that BBC panel show where he said imagine if the BBC were doing what the Vatican is doing? He didn’t gabble there, I can tell you. Abs’ly brilliant. A year ago or so.

No, I didn’t. His most recent appearance was on an awful program with Anne Widdecombe about the future of Christianity in the UK. He was very effective, but I keep wanting to say “Take a breath, Johann”. I occasionally listen to his podcasts, and I’m still not sure what to make of them. However, I do remember his magnificent speech at the rally against the pope’s visit.

That just pushed me over into getting a subscription. It’s a great magazine, I just never got around to it. Now I will. It’s important to support publications that do something other than Gnu Bashing, and who have such excellent taste in contributors.

Steve – I told Ophelia just the same thing the other day by email. She does have a great voice, doesn’t she?